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Beetroot Bread

Introduction: Beetroot Bread

Beetroot has become one of the new superfoods. I'm not exactly sure why, as with most trendy foods, but it taste good, is full of vitamin and gives everything a nice intense red colour!

This bread not only looks beautiful, but it has a slight beetroot like flavour to it. Sweet, in its own way, without being too sweet, like raisin bread and similar types of bread. It can be eaten exactly like regular white bread, with any type of topping you want.

Ingredients:

50g yeast

2 tablespoon honey

4-5 tablespoon lukewarm water

300g raw beetroot

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon nutmeg powder

1 organic orange

25g butter/oil

500g flour (preferably wheat flour, or a combination of wheat (400g) and something like graham (100g) or other)

(Optional) 2 tablespoons of yogurt or some other similar culture based thing

Step 1: Yeast, Honey and Water

Combine the yeast and honey in the lukewarm water and "melt" the yeast in the warm water.

Step 2: Grate Your Beets

To give the bread a nice even texture and look, its recommended that you grate your beetroots with a grater. But if you're lazy like me, you chop them up and use the blender. However, this does make it more chunky, and it does effect both the looks and to a certain degree also the taste of the bread (it taste slightly more like beetroot).

To help blend better, add the yogurt (I used 'Cultura', the flavour doesn't really matter with such small amounts) and the yeast/honey mixture and blend some more.